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  • Bobby McFerrin If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen If I can iron out my accent, it opens up another world of possible jobs. Whereas if you have that very strong European accent, it leaves you always being cast as the Hungarian maid or the stripper or whatever. I have voice lessons, and my coach has given me different tongue-twisters to rehearse at home.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
    Source: Mere Christianity (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Bryce Courtenay If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Brendan Myers If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Henry Ford If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Albert Einstein If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Alphonse De Lamartine If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
    Alphonse De Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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  • Kofi Annan If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Andreas Capellanus If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.
    Andreas Capellanus
    French writer (1150 - 1220)
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  • Carol Bartz If people really don't want ads, they can go find their information however it is they want. It's a free world on that matter.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Vannevar Bush If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
    Vannevar Bush
     
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  • Bono If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bonnie Bedelia If someone were to come from another planet and see the world through movies, they'd think that the world was populated by white men in their 30s who shoot a lot.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Winston Churchill If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Russell Hoban If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Heinrich Heine If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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